Example sentences for: eisenhower

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  • During the Eisenhower administration, Castro had begun moving deeper into the Soviet orbit out of fear of a U.S. invasion; Kennedy's failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 aggravated Castro's anxieties and gave him a rallying cry for a pro-Soviet tilt.

  • In the 1956 presidential race, Democrats seized on what columnist Max Lerner called "The Triple Issue": President Eisenhower's frail physical health (he'd had a heart attack in September 1955), nukes (the Soviet Union built a hydrogen bomb in November 1955), and, in Lerner's phrase, "the character of Richard Nixon" (liberals viewed Nixon, then vice president, as bellicose and ruthless).

  • The piece says that manipulation of public fear by politicians, the media, and the crime-prevention industry has created something akin to Eisenhower's "military-industrial complex."

  • In the post-World War II years, urban strife and suburban anomie gave rise to school violence of the sorts broadly rendered by Hollywood in the 1955 films Rebel Without a Cause and Blackboard Jungle . The nation waxed hysterical over "juvenile delinquency," as the vogue phrase had it--alienated adolescents unaccountably sullen in the bountiful Eisenhower years.

  • The war ended officially five months after Eisenhower was elected--and three months after Stalin died."


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